[Distutils] Package name != filename, and: Python version information

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Feb 23 22:54:42 CET 2007


At 10:03 AM 2/20/2007 +0100, Samuel Abels wrote:
>On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:38 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > Oops.  It appears I mis-spoke.  For backward-compatibility reasons,
> > setuptools only fixes this filename issue when building eggs, not source
> > distributions.
>
>I am still unsure; does this mean that there is no way for uploading
>packages whose name have a space in them to PyPi?

Did you try "setup.py sdist upload"?  I don't know if PyPI restricts 
filenames or not.

By the way, your mail client seems to think that today is the 20th - you 
might want to check your clock settings.



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